Opening

2:00 PM to 2:10 PM

A new world for all our children

Session description

We will start the second day of the conference by exploring how a new world for our children should look like. What should the vision be for a new world for all our children.

Devangana Mishra

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Keynote

2:10 PM to 2:30 PM

Reimagining education

Dr. Shashi Tharoor

Session description

An author and third-term parliamentarian, in a career that has included a stint in the Ministry for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor has been an outspoken advocate for wide-ranging reforms in India's education sector, particularly with a view towards developing a more equitable and quality-oriented ecosystem of learning for our students. In his talk, Dr. Tharoor will focus on existing challenges in the education space, solutions as well as share his perspectives on the New Education Policy and the opportunities and limitations of this guiding policy framework. 

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Reimagining school leadership

Soumya Jain & Bhavya

Session description 

Explore how iTeach schools have gone back to the drawing board and reimagined School Leadership over the past five years and innovations in the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of School Leadership, with a special focus on the impact of a "community of School Leaders".

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Living the alignment of head, heart, hand and soul in education

Initoli Vinito & Srishti Paliwal

Session description 

The session will explore the key facets of SEF's education philosophy and deep dive into what it takes to bring alive the primary elements of head, heart, hand and soul inside our classrooms every single day. Panelists will talk about the challenges, innovations and aspirations that they have for the philosophy

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RevolutionizED – Is it even possible?

Radhika Bharat Ram

Session description 

An incredible amount of teaching and yet, negligible understanding and learning! Skills being taught or caught? Are the diverse needs of the disabled, girl child, and the voices of the marginalised getting the short end of the stick? Where do we learn, What do we learn and How do we learn? What role can technology play?

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Session

2:55 PM to 3:15 PM

Future of Indian Education; The Future as we see it

Radha Goenka

Session description 

Ms. Goenka will talk about the future of education in India. She will draw from her experience of 12 years in the education space of working with teachers and students in government schools.

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Power of Teacher Education: Quality at Scale: A Case Study of CM Rise

Kruti Bharucha

Session description 

Scale in India takes on a completely different dimension than in most other countries. With 1.6 million government schools, the challenge to improve the quality of public schooling is immense.  During this session, we discuss Peepul’s support for the CM Rise programme in Madhya Pradesh, which pioneered digital teacher training for 300,000 government teachers across 100,000 schools, and we discuss their plans for holistic teacher development across the states of MP and Delhi.

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Courage, a 21st century skill

Sunitha Krishnan

Session description 

Sunitha Krishnan's life embodies courage. After a traumatic personal experience as a teenager, she has worked to provide end to end support to women who work as commercial sex workers. From breaking into brothels herself, to enduring death threats, to speaking up, she has embodied true courage. Learn the value of courage through her life experience.

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Panel discussion

3:25 PM to 4:00 PM

The importance of SEL through the lens of Teachers and Students, in a post COVID world

Bhavani Arumugham, Radha A, 

B Durgalakshmi, Nayana

Session description 

Socio - emotional learning can no longer be ignored as a subject and many schools are taking it up as a part of their curriculum. Let us hear more from Bhavani about the relevance and importance of SEL and life skills for students and teachers.

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3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

Reimagine Education: A fireside chat with a public school educator and student

Mainak Roy, Shiksha

Session description 

 The fireside chat will explore the vision of education as articulated by a public school educator and a student from a public school system. We will be exploring the key challenges that slow them down and the innovations that enables them to grow

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Navigating the Digital Divide

Session description 

Prerna, Kabir and Vivek has experienced the digital divide first hand with their own students and found ways to navigate this challenge. We will deep dive into understanding the different facets of the challenge and the innovations that are coming out at this hour of need.

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Session

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM

EMPATHY FOR CHANGEMAKING: The joy and the power to act

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Live master class

4:05 PM to 4:50 PM

Art that goes beyond art

DNMPS School

Denis Lara

Session description 

An Akanksha Art Class that blends art techniques, values, skill building as well as expression in a unique way.

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Grade 5

English

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Yogyata Bhardwaj

Session description 

In these COVID times,  the method of instruction has changed. Teachers had to adapt to the online method of teaching. Observe a live Literacy class in action, followed by a debrief to understand more about teaching online.

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Grade 9

Geometry

KARE school

Akash Reddy

Session description 

In these COVID times,  the method of instruction has changed. Teachers had to adapt to the online method of teaching. Observe a live Literacy class in action, followed by a debrief to understand more about teaching online.

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Session

5:00 PM to 5:20 PM

Witnessing virtue

Kishan Laddha

Session description 

In these times (or otherwise) how does one witness what’s working: whether in person, situation or in system. And witnessing virtue- invitation is to absorb and expand in one‘a life. Be it Karuna during Corona, gratitude during grief or inner strength during stress.

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Wellbeing: being a caretaker during COVID19

Malika Noor Mehta

Session description 

 The importance of mental wellbeing has taken on a whole new meaning during the COVID19 pandemic. All of us have become caretakers in these times, but in order to give to others, we must first take care of ourselves. Let's figure out how best to do just that!

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Live Social Studies Class

Taylor Delhagen

Session description 

This session will start with my educational autobiography in an attempt to trace my journey to and through the teaching profession. We will then turn and explore how we can change our mindsets surrounding history instruction in order to build classrooms that affirm the humanity and identities of all our students.

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Session

5:25 PM to 5:40 PM

Teachers & Technology: Supercharging learning to Read

Nitin Kashyap

Session description 

Hear from the Google team as well as 2 teachers on the ground on their experience with the app Read Along and how it could be useful for you - if you are a parent, a teacher or an administrator.

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Delivering a holistic education through PPP model

Kruti Bharucha

Session description 

The PPP model in India has been tried in a number of states, in different shapes and sizes. The PPP in Delhi began in 2015 with Ark’s first school in India.  During this session, we will discuss Peepul’s exemplar schools and their approach towards holistic education. Learning outcomes in the exemplar schools are 8-10 times higher than comparator government schools for Hindi and Maths, and 15 times higher for English. Listen in to understand what is done differently to ensure children are receiving a quality education that is on par with private schools

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Infinite Potential with Finite Resources

Gaurav Singh

Session description 

The session gets the participants to understand how educational innovations springboard off the constraints of our educators and schools. 

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Panel discussion

5:45 PM to 6:20 PM

iTeach Students: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED

Moderator: Tanvi Metre

Students: Abhay, Deepak, Snehal, Vivek

Session description 

Stories of Student alumni who has taken up alternative disciplines in academics. What made them choose this path? Who helped them in charting their own career trajectory? What are the roadblocks they faced while walking along the non-conventional way? What lies ahead for them?

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Partnering with Parents to improve schools and increase Accountability.

Moderator: Doney Biju

Panelists: Chinmaya Ponis, 

Sanskriti, Devanand Shivprasad, 

Mandar Karkhanis, Reshma Lengare

Session description 

A Panel discussion with various stakeholders - parents, students, SL, teachers on the various ways parents can ensure accountability and improvement be brought into schools.

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Shifts in Higher Ed. from the perspective of Akanksha Alumni

Namrata Khanvilkar, Mrunal Khadke, Swapnil Chavan, Kushagra Sathe

Session description 

The session gets the participants to understand how educational innovations springboard off the constraints of our educators and schools. 

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Closing

6:20 PM to 6:30 PM

Learn from key ideas through the day

Session description:

We will close out the day by sharing our learning from the day. This also a space for us to synthesise our key take away from the day.

Devangana Mishra

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